This cruise, which forms a component of the IIOE-2 endorsed project EP-17, was conducted on board the Indian Research vessel ORV Sagar Kanya during March 2017. It was aimed at retrieving and redeploying three OMNI(Ocean Moored buoy Network for Northern Indian Ocean) buoys and one CAL-VAL buoy in the Arabian Sea.

The participants included scientists from NIOT-Chennai and technicians from M/s Elektroniklab, Chennai.